Classic Appreciation: Thomas Pynchon’s Patriotic Lamentation - 'The Crying of Lot 49' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
"Shall I project a world?" * "Thomas Pynchon's second novel, The Crying of Lot 49, reads like an episode withheld from his first, the much-acclaimed V., published three years ago. Pynchon's technical virtuosity, his adaptations of the apocalyptic-satiric modes of Melville, Conrad, and Joyce, of Faulkner, Nathanael West